EVE has locked out new players essentially because it takes too long to get your skills up.

I hear this quoted often by people without the patience to give EVE a try. It's flat wrong and demonstrates your ignorance of how EVE is implemented. You don't need five years to succeed in your chosen profession; heck, you don't even need 6 months. The largest part of being successful is gaining experience through playtime and having a certain amount of fearlessness. I wager that this is true of most every MMORPG. Past a certain point, your training just adds versatility anyhow.

I think you don't understand how large businesses operate. They minimize risk whenever possible, sometimes even at the expense of profits. Running servers without some kind of safety net (read as: someone outside the company to blame) is a huge risk. Even if they have talented admin(s) on their staff, employees get sick, quit, or just don't feel like fixing some things. This is how large business operates. It's amazing they make any profit at all.

Give up dude. You got pwned, now take it like a man and learn something instead of desperately trying to regain a shred of your pride.

I'm not sure what to make of this. I put "linux lower tco" into your comparator site. The first Google result was pro-MS, but Bing didn't place a pro-MS result until #9.

I have to respectfully disagree here. When you make a lifestyle out of anything, when that thing is suddenly gone you notice it. All the time. ALL THE TIME. It might not be a physical addition like nicotine, alcohol, or hard drugs, but it is still an addiction.

I think you a verb.

God, I love this movie to death! I'm glad to see someone else watched it and enjoys it as much as I do. Also, it was filmed in my home town (Addison, suburb of Dallas, TX). It's fun pointing out where the various scenes are relative to my apartment.

So has Adobe figured out that it's better to have the Linux geeks in their corner than opposing them? I was pretty happy when they released the 64-bit Flash 10 beta for Linux before demoing other operating systems. It feels like a change for the better from them, and I hope it's genuine.

For anyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, there is an Adobe Flex interest and advocacy group that meets at my university (the University of Texas @ Dallas). Their website is http://www.d-flex.org/, and they meet every month on Thursdays.

I heard the leader of the organization speak at a UUG recently, and it seems like a really neat tool. You'll have to forgive me for promoting it over Silverlight. I'm always suspicious of Microsoft's long-term intentions, as their history has born out time and time again how malicious they are. I just don't trust them.